294 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Corn, planted or sown for fodder, is raised by many of the 

 dairymen, and is a profitable crop, particularly the past season, 

 when our pastures were literally burned up with the drought. 

 I think we never had a season when so much fodder was fed 

 from the barn, in the months of October and November, as the 

 past. Owing to the high price of hay, and cattle, and labor, 

 many farmers have disposed of most of their stock, sold their 

 hay, and though it may have the appearance of making money, 

 (if they stay upon their farms,) will find in the end that it was 

 not a profitable operation. 



We have only one herd of thoroughbred animals in "Worcester 

 North, to my knowledge, and that is a herd of Jerseys, owned 

 by John Brooks, of Princeton. There are some thoroughbred 

 males. At the town farm, in Fitchburg, we have a fine Short- 

 horn, raised by Wells Lathrop, of South Hadley. Capt. James 

 Upton, has a pure Shorthorn ; Nathan Caswell has a Jersey ; 

 Lyman Nichols has a Shorthorn and an Ayrshire, also an Ayr- 

 shire cow, from the herd of Mr. Peters ; Timothy Clark, of 

 Royalston, has a Shorthorn bull ; Augustus Whitman, of Fitch- 

 burg, has a few thoroughbred Shorthorns. There are many 

 grade animals of the different breeds, and people are beginning 

 to appreciate the services of thoroughbred males, so that our 

 stock shows evident signs of improvement. 



Abel F. Adams. 



WORCESTER , SOUTH. 

 In accordance with the vote of the Board of Agriculture, at 

 Worcester, I will give you what of special interest has fallen 

 under my observation, and such facts as I have been able to 

 obtain from other sources within the limits of the Worcester 

 South Agricultural Society. From year to year there seems to 

 be an increasing interest in the raising and procuring of such 

 stock as is best suited to the various localities, and to the partic- 

 ular farm on which the stock is to be kept. If we should raise 

 the large Durham cattle, and find that particular kind of stock 

 a source of profit, it is very evident that it must be a very pro- 

 ductive farm. If, as is the case on many of the farms, the 

 product of the pastures is not sufiicient for the larger breeds to 

 obtain a supply of food without a continual cropping from 

 morning till night, then it becomes the farmer to look for some- 



